Grieving Quotes - Page 17

• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  People, House, Physicians

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• Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

  Devendra Banhart

  Leaving, Crow, Tunes

  "Song: 'Cripple Crow' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• No one should have to grieve alone.

  William Wendt

  Should Have, Should

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• Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Knowing, Soul

  Samuel Johnson (2012). “Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Heart

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• I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

  Lee Radziwill

  Deep Love, Thinking, Different

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• You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

  Didi

  Fall, Ideas, Madly In Love

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• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Dust, Wife, Pieces

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

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• If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Filters, Possibility

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Loss, Broken

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that’s your first concern.

  Joan Didion

  Strong, Sorry, Self

  "National Book Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

  Judith Butler

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Running, Children

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• As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Saint, Rejoice

  THOMAS AQUINAS (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

  Pope Francis

  Car, Priests, Nun

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

  Pindar

  Giving, Sorrow, Serious

  Gilbert West, Pindar (1753). “Odes of Pindar: With Several Other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is Added A Dissertation on Olympick Games”, p.111

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• Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn't know it then.

  Barbara Ascher

  Sibling, Heart, Destiny

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• Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Soul, May, Too Much

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• The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

  R. A. Torrey

  Jesus, Blessing, Return

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• Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
  Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear,
  And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.

  Petrarch

  Lying, Grief, Heaven

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• What poet would not grieve to see
  His brother write as well as he?
  But rather than they should excel,
  He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Brother, Writing, Poetry

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.655

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• I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Jobs, Nurse, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

  Pliny the Elder

  Courage, Grief, Adversity

  "Letters, vol. 2". Book by Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth and Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson, Book VIII, Letter 17, 6, 1935.

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• There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Communication, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.457

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• Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
  As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Night, Mind

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